The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.